It’s finally here. The ten-car-pile-up on the freeway. The Bachelor Finale. It’s caused destruction and it’s super fucked up, but you couldn’t possibly look away or not rearrange your entire schedule around it. After upcoming scenes and the LOST cliffhanger noise, Chris Harrison teases us with tonight possibly being the first wedding ever on After The Final Rose.

The Bachelor has become aware of itself now so it is this bizarre combination of identifying its tropes while still promoting them and keeping weird strict rules about when it’s appropriate to say I love you/be drunk/bang out.

Chris: “We’re glad you’re all here, because tonight has the potential to be the most dramatic finale ever. Don’t laugh, I don’t say that all the time. Maybe I do. For the first time in history, our Bachelor told two women I love you… Tonight we could be witnessing our very first wedding.”

Tonight has the potential to be the most dramatic finale ever. Don’t laugh. We ARE setting the loser on fire.

For this Grand Finale and for the first time ever, they’ve flown in the families of the final two women to see if their spawn will win the big prize, a practice many other gameshows already do (Survivor, Big Brother, etc.). Jojo’s Bros are notably not there.

Separate waiting rooms due to The Bachelor’s benevolence.

Several other people who you would naturally want at your wedding ARE there, however: Neil Lane, Neil Lane’s young Asian wife, a couple cast members of that dance show, the actor Ricky Shroder, Ashley crI., etc.

Neil Lane has finally been promoted from guest star to recurring.

Also, of course in attendance is Delicate Ben’s Pastor, Denny, flown in from Indiana. He grasps a pen and notepad in an open Bible, taking the necessary last minute notes before Ben presumedly gets married.

Don’t forget to pause after “any objections”… Don’t fuck this up again, Denny… You don’t have the Warsaw Cursaw, they just made that up…

Pastor Denny occasionally flips through the Bible, pondering, as pastors hoping to finally wed a member of their congregation to a woman they banged on television are wont to do. He stands near a rose covered archway containing six white orchids, representing how man was created on the sixth day, in order to go to a Bachelor Casting Call on the eighth.

On the eighth day the Lord created The Bachelor and said, “Oh, fuck."But it was too late.

Chris: “If everything goes right, Ben Higgins will be a married man before the night is over… Let the viewing party begin!“

Let the last soul harvest of the season begin!

Pondering Sequence

It just occurred to me that they used to have the Bachelor or Bachelorette stand in a little room, staring at picture frames, debating the women. Now they just use editing to evoke that same response.

Lauren: “I can’t believe that Ben told me that he loves me… To sit there and just, like hear him say those words back felt so amazing.”

Worrying if Ben is going to pick me is almost as hard as walking like a normal person.

Jojo: “I was shocked when I told Ben that I love him and he told me he loved me back… I feel 100 times more confident… we’re on the same page… I believe that fairy tales can happen and that that type of love is real, and I think this is the first time that I’m living that.”

That classic chapter of every fairy tale where the princess is forced to walk down to the beach in jorts and gaze out forlornly onto the ocean, wondering if the prince is gonna pick her or some blonde B.

If you thought they were the only ones pondering, you’re dead wrong. Ben is also pondering. His arms are withering away. He has not lifted a single weight since he’s been on the show. What is he doing this whole time? Praying? Crying? Grasping his bracelet in confusion? Writing in his less-than-five-pound diary?

Ben: “I know that I meant it when I said it both times.” Double-pinkie-swear!!

He’s wearing a stupid shirt again that makes him look seven years old. Coming from a person who’s never gotten a spray tan, I am still irrationally offended that he did not get one. Possibly this show is making me a much worse human being.

Dear diary… what do I do? Grasping my Hope bracelet tightly and pouring my virgin tears into it isn’t helping me make my decisions anymore. Stupid thing must be broken!

Ben: “My head’s a mess. I came here hoping to find love but now I’m in love with two women and I don’t know how I’m gonna handle it. I never saw this coming because my insecurity or my fear has always been that I’m unlovable. But now I have two women that love me."Double-lovable.

How many more FernGullies do I need to chop down before the answer is finally clear?

Lauren B.land Meets Ben’s Parents

Ben’s parents have been flown out to Jamaica to meet both Ben’s gal pals.

Ben’s Dad: “Are you in love?”

Ben: “100%. I’m in love with two women and I couldn’t help but tell them.”

Ben’s Mom: “Wow.”

Ben, you know 100% divided by two is only 50% sure, right?

Ben: Lauren is “gorgeous, she’s sweet, she loved Warsaw.”

She’s gorgeous, she’s sweet, she loved Warsaw. Oh, if I HAD to pick one? I would say loving Warsaw is probably her most salient quality.

Ben’s Mom: “To know that Ben could possibly be in love with two women, first of all, is really disturbing to me.”

It’s disturbing he’s in love with two women. Almost as disturbing as the fact that I keep vaguely referencing him needing a wife to keep him off the ledge.

Wait, what do you MEAN there are adjectives other than nervous or excited?

They go over how Lauren wanted to meet Ben’s parents on their first date but insists not in a creepy way. Ben’s Dad is still hot. Might have Googled young Ben’s Dad. I might be a lunatic.

Ben’s Dad to Lauren: “It’s very obvious how he feels about you… And I see a twinkle in Ben’s eye that I have not seen.” Ben has LITERALLY no self control.

It’s VERY obvious. Like literally I had to say Son, tuck in your twinkle.

Ben’s Dad: “Are you in love with Ben?"Lauren B.land looks everywhere but into Ben’s Dad’s eyes (which we all know would be physically impossible), making me suspect she’s lying.

Lauren: "I’m very much in love with Ben.”

I’m very much in love with Ben. Btw, is that crab grass?

Ben’s Mom is skeptical of Lauren B. but she’s more skeptical of her own son. “Have you seen Ben’s side where he’s his worst critic?” She’s shitting on Ben and it’s great.

What do you mean he can get intense? Like about his lawn? Wait, what ledge?

Lauren: “How is it that I’ve fallen in love with this man who’s seemingly perfect?”

Ben’s Mom rolls her eyes: “We’ll talk some more later…”

Lauren: “How could I help him most as a partner?”

Ben’s Mom: “He can get pretty intense. He can get pretty worked up. I think it will take a special person to be patient with him in those times. To talk him off the ledge. It’s not all about the rosey and the wonderful.”

They hold hands as you do the first time you meet your significant other’s parents.

Ben’s Mom asks Ben: “Do the two gals that are left, do they understand that [you said I love you to both]?

Ben: "No. They have no clue how I feel about each other.”

Yikes.

Ben: “I’m sure they know that feelings are very strong. But that’s kind of my own burden to carry.”

Yeah, that’s kinda my own burden to carry, Mom. I call it Ben’s Burden. I’m kind of like Jesus Christ if he had worked out less?

Ben: “My heart is split.” Ben’s Burden too heavy.

Lauren to Ben: “Meeting your parents was, like, the last thing that I really needed, and I’m, like, fully ready to get engaged. I mean, Ben, I am, like, there.”

I’m like, there. Right now. Fully. I’ve like, left my body. I’m in the future, watching us raise our like, boring slow-blinking kids. Our lawn is like, pristine. You become a silver fucking fox, duh. I more and more resemble like, my own father.

Is that wheel, like, from something? Was there a great old-fashioned disaster here?

Ben is wearing the same shirt as his Dad.

Ben: “Mother and Father, this is Jojo.”

Jojo the Pro, assuming the parents must be religious if Ben is, has a line ready to meet them: “I feel so lucky and blessed to just be here and to get to meet the two people who have made such an incredible guy.”

Blessed just to be nominated for the chosen vessel to carry on these genes.

Ben tells his parents that his favorite thing about Jojo is that she is a roofie in human form and makes him forget the other women/his stress.

Ben then, like a teenager, infers that he and Jojo didn’t really see the Hoover Dam because they were making out.

Ben: “We took a helicopter ride, like through the Las Vegas strip and I would like to say that we saw the Hoover Dam. I don’t think we did.”

Then we saw a movie and let’s just say we REALLY don’t know how that movie ended if you know what I mean… Because we were making out HARD, get it, Mom?

Ben’s Dad: Lauren “set that bar pretty high. So I’m looking for Jojo to either be there or to meet that expectation.”

Lauren set bar here. Jojo just needs to get here or above. She’s made facial expressions so she’s pretty far above Lauren already.

Jojo calls Ben her best friend to Ben’s Mom and I’m starting to get extremely emotionally invested and worried.

Jojo: “I told him [I love you] completely not expecting to hear anything back, but he told me that he loved me.”

Ben’s Mom’s FACE trying to not have a reaction.

Oh did he? Such news. Such solo news I’ve not heard from anyone else.

She tells Jojo the most important thing is making Ben feel safe like a newborn puppy.

Jojo: “He makes me feel very loved and he makes me feel safe.”

I feel safe as can be. Yeah, maybe he sometimes hauntingly stares past me, searching desperately. Sure, he occasionally calls me Jauren. And OK, yeah, he likes to roleplay where I waddle over to him. But that’s just the effect of internet porn on America’s boys!

Jojo: “I want you to know that I love him and my intentions are so pure."I swear I’m here for the rightest reasons.

Twice as many hands holding as with Lauren B.land.

Ben’s Mom: “I really felt early on in the day that Ben felt really happy, really comfortable, really excited to see Jojo. Jojo had this ability to know what it was gonna take where Ben could feel safe. So, for me, it did feel different today.”

She can keep Ben safe! I mean, guard and protect his heart! I mean, Ben is totally normal and doesn’t need protection provided by a woman for sure that is a fact!

Yeah, OK. He’s a pussy.

Jojo to Ben: “I feel more confident than ever.”

Ben: “You should feel so good. They love you.”

Jojo asks Ben if he would propose to whoever. Ben shakes his head while saying yes.

Yes. Definitely. Not proposing. Well, yes, proposing. No to you being the object of said proposal.

Jojo: “I’m feeling a million times more sure of Ben and I.” Ben tells Jojo he loves her immediately after talking about a proposal. Jojo leaves.

Ben’s Dad to Ben: “Unfortunately, you can’t propose to two different ladies… Either one of these ladies would be spot on.”

Unfortunately, you only get one lake house, Son, that you can live with one woman in and later make a bunch of your son’s girlfriends uncomfortable at with all the hanky panky.

Ben: But “I love them very much the same.”

It’s actually very difficult to get a shot of Ben not blinking.

Ben’s Dad: “Lauren was very polished and she is a great gal… Jojo has fallen in love with you and considers you to be almost a best friend.”

Ben’s Mom’s Confessional: “I hate that at this point in time he doesn’t know who to plant his stake with.” Will he plant his stake in Jojo? Will he plant his stake in Lauren B.land? Stakes must be planted.

Ben to his parents: “My heart’s in two different places and my mind’s in two different places.”

My heart’s in two different places and my mind’s in two different places. My finger’s going in several different directions. I’m a mess.

Ben’s Mom: “Whoever you pick is going to be blessed.”

Ben: “I agree.” (due to being Jesus)

Wellll at least the lady will be blessed either way.

There are two giant chicken statues on the front porch as Ben exits.

FORESHADOWING SHEILA’S ABNORMALLY LARGE PRESENCE IN WOMEN TELL ALL.

Ben: “I have no idea who I could be saying goodbye to at this point."—I feel like they filmed it later when he references what point in the process he’s at.

Back in present-ish day, Chris checks in on Bachelor Nation. Chris: “What is Ben going to do? He’s got himself in a bit of trouble, right?” RIGHT, BACHELOR NATION? I’m not sure Chris’s light tone accurately reflects the severity of Ben’s Burden.

That silly rascal’s done it again! How will he get out of this one?

Pastor Denny is still standing by, going over the Bible, preparing himself to possibly officiate the most important American wedding of early 2016.

I captured this fucking rad action shot of the spiritual knowledge seeping out of the Bible and fusing into Pastor Denny’s core.

Lauren B.land’s Final Date

Do I look like an emotionless doll yet? Yep! Good to go.

Ben: “I’ve prayed a lot over the last 24 hours about these next two dates.”

Lauren rafts up to him.

Fuck no, I’m not touching that water. Seeing me wet before we start drinking? We haven’t been tested and WE’RE NOT GOING TO START NOW, BEN.

Lauren tells Ben she can’t believe she’s ready to get married. Ben reassures her by telling her he hasn’t been sleeping.

Lauren: “What are you thinking about right now?”

Ben deflects: “You’re beautiful.”

Lauren is cradling Ben like her baby.

What are you thinking about rn? Idk maybe going back in the womb or something…

Lauren asks Ben if he has any doubts regarding her.
Ben: “No. I think the only thing is it’s been so perfect. Everything. Like from the moment I saw you. It’s not a bad thing. At all. It’s just like, when things get too good to be true I get really nervous. I knew I loved you and like, right away and I didn’t even know why. It freaks me out. And it’s weird. And it’s crazy. And it’s good. And it’s life… What in the hell is happening? That’s where my mind’s at.” Sounds like you’re ready. More nuzzling.

Ben: “We haven’t been tested. And with Jojo we’ve been through those rough things and overcame. And Lauren and I haven’t… Maybe it has been too perfect, too easy, and the feelings were so immediate that now I’m questioning…"Aka his d.

Later that night… Lauren’s so nervous but she doesn’t look nervous at all. Ben is wearing a hooded T-shirt.

Lauren B.land: “Do you have any more questions left on your mind sitting here, right now?” BEN’S FACE!!!!

Oh, DO I?!

Ben: “No matter what happens. You made me a better person. You’ve made this worth it. You stood beside me at all times. And, um, you not only allowed me to know you better but also to fall in love with you.”

Who wouldn’t cry for the soft caress of an unlovable finger?

Her confessional: “I’m scared that Ben’s in love with Jojo too… If tonight was the last time I heard Ben say I love you. I don’t really know what I would do.” Dark.

Jojo’s Final Date

We see the Jamaican flag and pollination imagery at the start of Jojo’s date.

Even this random Jamaican butterfly has planted its stake.

Jojo waits on a dirt road. Ben: “With Jojo it’s taken a little longer.” Because she came in with a horse on her head. Then because she put cards on her head to make me guess facts. But Jojo’s caught up!

Ben: “I’m going to pray for clarity because I need it.”

They make out and Jojo asks if Ben feels her heart again. Ben: “Every time.” You really think I’m gonna go through life being the Bachelor and not get all my heart grazing in?

First time Jojo hasn’t jumped into Ben’s arms on first sight. Probably scared about the muscle atrophy.

A local man runs from his Ice Cold Jelly stand after Ben and Jojo’s Jeep, yelling, “Welcome!” Ben and Jojo reflect on the friendliness of the Jamaican populace.

Want some ice cold jelly for your ice cold break up?

Ben: “What’s my worst characteristic?” Jojo: “That you’re in this situation.” I would love if she just said fuck it maybe I’m Bachelorette and said his tattoo.

Jojo’s confessional: “He’s become my best friend. The feelings are obviously mutual. It’s the best relationship I’ve ever been in.”

Ben: “This is the Blue Hole.”

Jojo: “Reminiscent of my first date.” Where we explored the Brown Hole. I am a garbage person.

Which one? Oh, Blue Hole? Word.

Ben crushes Jojo in the Blue Hole.

Let’s hold onto this rock and make out said no one ever.

Jojo brings up how they haven’t really talked about where things are going after this…

If you add the number of boobs you have to the amount of eyes we both have and subtract four then you’ll get the number of women I’m in love with.

Jojo has to drag it out of him: “There’s two people here and you’re confused?” She and Bachelor Nation try to not cry.

Ben: “I’m so clear that I love you but my mind’s in a thousand different places.” AKA NOT CLEAR YOU TURD.

Jojo’s Confessional: “I thought Ben and I were on the same page and I know we’re not on the same page… What are you so torn about? I hope I don’t end up looking like a fool.”

Later that night, Jojo confronts him about his doubts. Ben can barely speak a sentence.

Jojo: “What is it about you and I that you struggle with?”

Ben: “ This isn’t going to help. I don’t have one. Don’t roll your eyes. I don’t have one. I wish I could. I’ve tried to find something with either relationship that would make it clearer.”

Jojo: “I’ve never been more scared of anything in my entire life.”

The bathroom floor conversation… “I need something from you. I’m losing my mind.” Ben: “Look at me. I’m sitting here, on a bathroom floor with you tonight. Being as open with you as I possibly can be and, I love you. And I know right now that doesn’t feel like it should when I tell you that. What I’m telling you tonight is exactly where I’m at…”
Jojo: “But you love her too. Am I right?”
Ben: “Yes.”
Jojo: “And you said that to her?”
Ben: “Yes. I don’t know. Do you not want me to tell you this?”

I can just lie. I’ve been told that’s a human capability.

Jojo: “No, I do. I just feel foolish. Like, I feel like for me, when I think about you, it’s something so special.”
Ben: “I know.”
Jojo: “No, you don’t. I just want it to be me and you. I feel like I always have to compete with other people. I’m so tired of competing.”

Jojo cries. Then Ben cries.

Can Lauren grab your ass like I can, BEN?!

BEN’S BURDEN TOO BURDENSOME!!!

Ben: “Thank you for dealing with the craziness that is this and sticking with me through it.”

Jojo: “I feel almost sick to my stomach.”

Ben says I love you walking out the door.

I thought I had the best taco tho.

Ben: “I’m a lost man right now.”

Delicate Ben Meets Neil Lane

They’re showing his chest through a foggy window.

So coy.

Neil Lane looks like a gray wax figure. Possibly he died 10 seasons ago and it’s a Weekend at Bernie’s sitch because you gotta STICK TO WHAT WORKS.

If it ain’t broke and it’s still giving you free rings, don’t fix it.

Neil asks Ben if he’s chosen someone. He reviews his options. With Jojo, they’ve “gone through hard times” —the helicopter destroying their champagne and almost blowing her shirt off… The Zodiac Killer letter from her ex, Chad. With Lauren, they haven’t been tested at all, but fuck it. It would be really funny if Lauren’s response to conflict is to become a raging psychopath.

Ben: “Looking down at the ring I knew who to propose to."If it’s a diamond cut he’s picking Jojo. If it’s a square cut it’s Lauren B.land.

Do I see this ring jumping and straddling me or waddling over? Hm.

Ben: “Today I’m going to propose to a woman that I’m going to marry and I can’t wait. But still bittersweet… A woman I love is going to arrive here and I’m going to break her heart.”

It’s only ultimately romantic if you both start on the verge of panic attacks.

IT’S JOJO’S SHOES FIRST!!!!!!

Delicate Ben Dumps Jojo

Jojo: “I feel like I have that love with Ben that people will be able to look at us and be envious… Ben has always promised to not blindside me.” He’s promised it before! To Becca. Need I remind you that THAT WAS A LIE. BECCA WAS BLINDSIDED AS FUCK.

Ben: “It’s a big day.” Fuck, you.

Why isn’t Ben making Jojo stop???????

Jojo: “I love you with all my heart and I trust you.” Big mistake. Huge.

The face of best-friend-zone activation.

Bensplaining: “I uh, I came into this not knowing if I was going to find love. I didn’t know if this would be real. If this would be hard. Or if we could just kind of go through it and take really nice helicopter rides. But with you it was real, always. I didn’t know if I could find love. I found it with you but I found it with somebody else more. I don’t want to let go because I can’t, I don’t want to say goodbye. Jojo, even on a day like today, I still don’t question that I do love you.”

I just found it with someone else more, harder, faster, stronger, with more je ne sais qwaddling.

Jojo: “I don’t even know what to say right now. I’m so confused and blindsided. You told me that you were in love with me, that I was your best friend, that you can’t imagine life without me, so where did it go wrong?”

Ben: “It never did.”

It never did. I truly can’t imagine life without you. I’m really hoping you sometimes sub in as our third.

Ben’s SUCH a good guy so he offers to walk Jojo out.

Jojo: “For you to tell me how in love with me you were, you shouldn’t have done that.”

Ben: “My feelings haven’t changed. In any other world, in any other time, I couldn’t imagine saying goodbye to you.”

Trust me. In ANY other situation or time or world you would be considered too hot for me.

Jojo: “I got to go. I’m happy for you.”

JOJO GETS IN LIMO. Ben’s crying.

Ben: “Jojo gets the raw end of this deal… I don’t deserve Jojo.” Not unlike the other night.

Jojo: “I want to go home… I feel so confused. I feel speechless. I walked into today thinking that it could be the happiest day of my life… I just want the kind of love that you can count on. That they really mean it. That they’re not going anywhere.”

Because his crying is truly pathetic and makes me sadder…

We hear the X Files Theme Song and we’re back with Lord Harrison. Chris: “You guys can pick your jaws up.”

Delicate Ben Proposes to Lauren B.land

Ben: “There was no good reason to say goodbye to Jojo other than the fact that I love Lauren so much.”

Jojo: “It was gut-wrenching. It helped me to see that it was hard for you too.”

Ben: “It’s really tough. I don’t know how you guys do this every year.” It’s less tough when you’re the one behind the camera laughing at the one crying tho…

Chris: “Did it help seeing his love for Lauren? Could you see differences?”

Did it help, for you, to see him bang Lauren before he banged you? Did the knowledge of so much mixed fluids ease the heart pangs, at all?

Jojo’s Bachelorette line: “Everything happened for a reason.”

Chris: “Not done with the two of you.” I’M SO HAPPY. I don’t think I have instinctively screamed out loud like that since childhood. What is wrong with me. I can’t wait for her Bachelorette Season. Someone will definitely exit the limo in a horse’s head. And Jojo’s family for hometowns—her brothers with four new men. Jojo’s Mom will now be shooting up in the background.

They took the Bachelorette job away from Caila due to social media outcry. I guess this is less fucked up than making the male contestants vote between them on night 1.

Here she is, our sacrifice for the next Hunger Games!

After this announcement, Lord Harrison tries to reassure us that “Mondays aren’t cooling off"because that dancing show will be on. But we’re not fooled. We all know Mondays are fucking cooling off in an extreme way that we barely recovered enough emotionally from to go to work yesterday.

Delicate Ben Proposes to Lauren B.land Again

Pastor Denny is lurking ominously, still. Lauren comes out. She did something to her lips. She’s looking very Paris Hilton. Chris: “Welcome to public… How did you cross that bridge and get over that issue (Jojo)?”

Lauren: In Jamaica “We’re laying in bed the next night and he laid it all out there.”

He slipped it in, then he slipped in that he told Jojo he loved her.

Chris: “You were shaking like a leaf.” We had you emotionally DISTRAUGHT, didn’t we.

Lauren: “I fall more in love with him every day.”

Chris: Ben’s “like a kid in a candy store.” GROSS.

Like a kid in a candy store. But the only candy is Necco Wafers.

Chris: “What was the deciding factor?” The rings!

Ben: “My commitment was to stay open.” No shit.

Chris: “When did you know you were being proposed to or were you waiting for the ‘but’?”

Lauren just recaps the events: “I laid my feelings on the table, then there was a pause, and he went down on one knee.”

Chris asks if they have an idea of when the wedding will be.

Lauren: “I don’t want a long engagement.” Perfect.

Ben’s poker face.

Ben: “Honestly for me, I just want to show her off.” Jimmy Kimmel interrupts, pretending to be a reporter. He does an awkward as fuck improv game with Delicate Ben. They should have prepped Ben for this game or prepped him more…

Jimmy: “Where do babies come from?” Is this an extreme callback to Kaitlyn’s season when he awkwardly taught a sex-ed class?

Ey Ben! I’m just a pleb reporter! Where do babies come from?

Ben: “I don’t know.” We believe you.

Jimmy: “Will there be a wedding cake?”

Ben: “Muffins."WHAT ON EARTH ANSWER IS THAT. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the moment Lauren decides to dump him.

Jimmy mimes a Barbie and Ken doll banging and asks where they touched each other.

I know this Ken doll doesn’t have a heinous tattoo but just try to imagine for a second, that this is you.

Jimmy asks if they’ll watch Jojo on the Bachelorette and they both hurriedly say yes. Jimmy: “That’s weird.”

Chris: “Guillermo will steal his show.” Do I have to watch Jimmy’s show to know who the fuck Guillermo is?

Chris calls Ben’s wedding bluff and brings out Pastor Denny, finally. I can’t believe Pastor Denny hasn’t collapsed, standing under that arch so long. My fingers are killing me from this behemoth of an episode. Ben forgets how to clap.

Where do the hands go I’m too excited?

Chris challenges Ben to get married.

Lord Harrison penetrating Bachelor Nation’s soul.

Lauren pulls out that Graduate smile moment when she’s forced to consider marrying Delicate Ben on the spot.

Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, no.

Ben says they’re going to wait to do a big wedding without all the creepy middle-aged women surrounding them. I thought Ben was going to kiss Pastor Denny for a second. Ben proposes again in front of their families.

But this time it’s for real because it’s not on national televi– our families are physically present!

Meanwhile, backstage:

Cheers to dodging that bullet.

Ben and Lauren’s Dads clasp hands for the “Higgins Bushnells joining” like some weird Game of Thrones power-play wedding.

We shall join together to finally take over Westeros!

They tell Pastor Denny to keep standing in LA on call for the ABC Wedding.

Ben makes an announcement: “For about ten more minutes I’m still relevant.” For a second I think Ben is about to do an advertisement for his Hope bracelets. Instead, it’s a shoutout to Bachelor Nation– “Bachelor Nation has been loving and supportive."—never been done.

I appreciate that the Bachelor is FINALLY thanking me for my support. He can stay on the low-bar Bachelor Mount Rushmore. Ben is also DEAD WRONG that he only has 10 more minutes of relevance. This is real life Hunger Games, Ben. Bachelor Nation owns you for eternity. I know what Kaitlyn and Shawn do every day of their lives and I’m pretty sure that’s standard for Bachelor Nation.